Quotes About Rumors

Heeft je vader het ooit over de Zieleneters gehad?' Torak fronste. 'Nee. Daar heb ik nog nooit van gehoord.' 'Dan moet je de enige in het hele Woud zijn.' … 'Waarom heetten ze Zieleneters?' vroeg hij, bijna zonder zijn lippen te bewegen. 'Aten ze echt zielen?' 'Wie weet? De mensen werden bang, en wanneer mensen bang zijn, worden geruchten tot waarheid.

It's like Jack Kennedy," DeMarco said to Emma. "All the rumors about Joe Kennedy being a bootlegger and having ties to the mob and getting rich on insider trading never really hurt Jack. It sounds like the same thing with Stephanie. By the time she jumped onto the political stage, her old man was dead, his money had been laundered clean, she had nothing to do with his past life.

You can't believe everything you hear, but it's fun to repeat it anyway.

Erica Jong believes "gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

We know very well what there is under other people's tails, but we cannot live without sniffing.

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?

Contre la médisance il n'est point de rempart.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Spreading rumours is our national past time

Posso querelare per diffamazione un tizio che mi accusa nero su bianco di avere picchiato mia moglie, di essere un plagiario, uno spacciatore, un alcolizzato con tendenze violente, e con tutta probabilità anche un assassino?" "Non saprei. Mi sembra che il tizio sia piuttosto bene informato".

Covid rumor was spreaded by speaking about it 24 hours by media journalists, through newspapers, mobile ring tones , news websites front page and many other channels so that people can't think anything but only corona by listening about this media hype created virus round the hours and then doctors started looting patients and its booty commission went to every level of politics. Still they are spreading rumors about it and fools wearing masks accept it.

Paul's purpose, in any case, was not to encourage the Thessalonians' tendency toward lurid apocalyptic speculation, but to assure them that, despite fears and rumors, God was in charge. Jesus was indeed the coming world ruler, and they, as his people, were secure.

It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon. Their usefulness lies in their effect on the course of the campaign, in neutralizing rumors and false reports, in maintaining a good spirit in the camp, and in furnishing matter for camp-fire talk. The printed order of the day should fulfill these different ends.

Our churches are being destroyed by gossip. What is it about us that wants to hear all the garbage?

But a lie is halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics. Or masturbation. - Johnny Depp

Although she tried not to let the rumors that she had followed the Prince out of vanity bother her, she had known that it was partly true. Her aching heart, however, gradually informed her that it was much more than just partly true.

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

History is merely gossip.

Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.